By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Dec 16, 2015 My Soul Doth Magnify… By now, if you’ve read much of my writing at all, you know how hard I try to imagine. What it was like at creation. What it was like to be Abraham, or Rachel, or David. What it felt like to be a disciple of […]
December 15, 2015: Hundreds of Adventist congregations in the United States, maybe thousands, celebrated the American holiday of Thanksgiving with community outreach events last month. The largest such event may well have been at Mount Gilead Church in Bradenton, Florida. There were 1,300 people for dinner on Sunday, November 15, reported television Channel 9 and […]
by Ervin Taylor, December 14, 2015: Back in November 2013, the “The General Conference Executive Officers” issued a kind of Adventist version of a Papal Encyclical. Perhaps more accurately, we should characterize it as an Adventist version of a Papal Bull. That term “Bull” comes from the Latin “Bulla,” or seal that was placed on […]
December 14, 2015: It begins at a city gate where a Roman soldier talks roughly to the crowd and asks people why they are coming to Bethlehem and what they plan to do in town. They hear the rabbi reading from the scroll and see shopkeepers making bread and selling their wares. There is a […]
December 11, 2015: Ukrainian police have identified a body recovered from a ventilation shaft of an abandoned building in Kiev as that of Dr. Jay Sloop, the Adventist physician from Yakima, Washington, in the U.S. His body was recovered from a building next to the park where he went missing on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, […]
December 10, 2015: Changes in management roles at Kettering Health Network (KHN), the eight Adventist hospitals in the Dayton (Ohio) metropolitan area, left Terri Day, one of the top women among Adventist health administrators, without a job. She had been president of the network since November 2012, the first woman to serve in that role, […]
From APD, December 10, 2015: The executive board of the Adventist denomination’s Hansa Conference in Germany has published a declaration of regret for the decision of the General Conference Session regarding the ordination of women serving as pastors. The vote last summer decided against allowing the denomination’s 13 world Divisions to make individual decisions on […]
Posted by Debbonnaire Kovacs, Dec 9, 2015 I found this interesting drama, put on by the Seventh-day Adventist Church of the Oranges Drama Ministry this past March, posted on YouTube. It is a little over half an hour long and, in my opinion, contains a little too much in the way of long monologues. However, […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Dec 9, 2015 There is a wall, a stone wall, high and strong and thick, built over many years out of the heavy stone of many difficult and traumatic circumstances. On the wall is a tower, a round little tower springing high as if it, instead, is made of light. And […]
By S M Chen, posted Dec 9, 2015 ‘When the character of Christ shall be perfectly recreated in His people, then He will come…’ – E. G. White, Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 69 “… resist not evil. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” – Matt. 5:39 […]
By Adrianna Holness and Jessica Borelli, posted Dec 9, 2015 Adrianna Holness is a fifth-year doctoral student in Loma Linda’s clinical psychology program. Jessica Borelli, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Pomona College; together, this team is spearheading the project described below and has asked for Adventist Today’s help in getting the word […]
From ANN, December 8, 2015: The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia was honored by the House of Representatives in Colombia for the more than 25 years of dedicated work in the country, during a special ceremony held at the Congress building in Bogota on December 1, 2015. ADRA is the humanitarian […]
